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Security Papers Limited is a majority-owned company of the Pakistan Security Printing Corporation. [6] It was founded in 1965 as a joint venture among Pakistan, Iran, and Turkey to manufacture banknotes and security papers. In 1967, it was listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange. [7] In 1969, it began commercial operations. [7]
The stamped paper has been widely used around the world to collect taxes on documents requiring stampings, such as leases, agreements, receipts, court documents and many others. The papers are bought blank apart from the pre-printed stamp and are available from stationers, lawyers' offices, post offices and courts according to local regulations.
When the paper of the stamp is described, stamp catalogs often use words that are relative, such as thick and thin. This is done to describe the variations of the stamp's paper in a particular issue. Thick may be as much as 0.005 inches and thin as little as 0.001 inches, with medium somewhere in between.
Siddiqui Stamps Catalogue - Collect Pakistan Postage Stamps 2011 Edition available at www.pakistanphilately.com Editor: Akhtar ul Islam Siddiqui; Ron Doubleday and Usman Ali Isani, Pakistan Overprints on Indian Stamps and Postal Stationery 1947–1949, Karachi (1993).
Not all medallion signature guarantee stamps are of equal value. A special coded prefix is given to each stamp, and this prefix determines how much monetary value can be guaranteed. For instance if the medallion signature guarantee is required for US$400,000 worth of value, at least a C prefix is required, which is good for up to $500,000 value.
From 1968 until about 2003 paper manufactured at Pakistan Security Printing Press, Karachi was used to print the stamps. [47] The ink used was also manufactured at the same place. [ 47 ] Near the end of the 2003, paper manufactured by Tullis Russell Coaters, UK started being used, and it continued for the next year.
1982 –9 100 Years of the University of Punjab – 14 October 1982; One stamp was issued on this occasion These stamps were issued in gutter sheets with Eleven gutters in different purple colour pictures, Five emblems and six pictures of university buildings. Value: Rs. 1 1982 –10 75th Anniversary of the Scout Movement– 23 December 1982
The name of the producing bank note company is always found at the bottom center of the note's front side. [8] Type I: Engraved and printed by the Homer Lee Bank Note Company; printed on yellow paper. Type II: Engraved and printed by the Homer Lee Bank Note Company; printed on creamy white paper; the paying city is hand-written.